Sweet Appams made With Diet 7-UP

2 bottles Diet 7-UP
4 cups of raw rice
2 cups of cooked rice
2 cups of coconut milk powder
1 ½ cup water
6 tbsp sugar
½ tsp yeast
Salt as per taste

Wash and soak raw rice for 3 hours then grind the soaked rice, cooked rice, 6 tbsp sugar, coconut milk powder, salt as per taste with 2 bottles of 7-UP. Grind it to a fine paste. Add 1 ½ cup of water to adjust the consistency of the batter. Check and adjust the salt if required.

Now take 4 tbsp of Luke warm water add ½ tsp yeast and wait till it rises and frothy. Once the yeast is frothy mix it into the batter and let the batter ferment for 8 hours or overnight

Once the batter is fermented mix it once. Take a deep round curved frying pan, grease it with oil and pour 1 big serving spoon in the pan and give one swing to coat the pan around. Now add another ½ serving so the batter remains in the centre. Cover the pan and let it fry on slow fire until the sides fry like a golden lace. Enjoy it with any chutney or you may relish it with chicken curry in coconut milk.

Steamed Rice Chopsuey with Shrimps, Chicken & Veges

2 to 3 cups cooked rice

3 cups chicken stock

boneless cubed chicken pieces - as much as you like

shrimps boiled – as much as you like

1 can mushrooms – cut as desired

2 capsicum – cubed or cut as desired

1 bunch spring onion greens – cut in big pieces

2 carrots – cut as desired

1 Onion - cubed

any other veges u would like to add ( chinese cabbage, or any other greens)

3 to 4 flakes garlic – chopped fine

1 or 2 chillies (optional/ if desired) - chopped fine

2 to 3 tbsp soya sauce

pinch of Aji No Moto

2 huge tablespoons of Cornflour mixed with a little water

Oil for frying

Method
Boil chicken and shrimp separately, drain and keep aside. Blanch carrots for a minute. Drain and set aside.

Heat oil in a wok. Add the garlic and let it fry well. Don’t let it brown. Add chillies (optional). Stir-fry for a minute. Add the veges and stir-fry for a minute. Add the chicken stock. Make sure that the salt is not too much in the stock as you will be adding a bit a of Soya sauce. Add Soya sauce and aji no moto ( (aji no moto may be omitted) Put the flame on high heat till the liquid starts boiling. Add the cornflour and let it thicken. Add the chicken, shrimps and the rice. Let it simmer for a minute. Serve hot.

Red chicken

Prawns and noodles

500 gms Prawns shelled / deviened
1 large garlic pod finely chopped
1 inch piece ginger
4 to 5 green chillies chopped
½ onion or one small onion finely chopped
1 tbsp soya sauce
1 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
2 tbs ketchup
1 tsp cornflour mixed with little water
Oil for Frying
4 Packs of 2 minute noodles cooked and kept aside
Fry garlic and ginger and onions together, brown well, add chilies, then add soya sauce, vinegar and oyster sauce & Ketchup. Fry well add little water for some gravy and add the shelled prawns. Cook till prawns are done. Add cornflour mixed with water and let it thicken a bit.
Arrange cooked noodles on a plate. Spoon the prawns over the noodles and serve.
Yar, Itna simple recipe hai. Can’t figure out why I took so long to write it. Usually u can have a dish of chicken or beef and place it over a bed of noodles and it looks and tastes Yummilicious…………..

Golden Dates Pickle

Ingredients
1 Kg semi ripe dates (stoned and cut into 4 pcs)
25 green chilies (cut into rounds)
3” piece of ginger (cut into cubes)
2 pods of garlic (cut it into cubes)
2 Tbsp red chilly powder
2 Tbsp salt
1 Tbsp turmeric powder
20 Tbsp mustard Oil
3 big lemons (squeeze out the juice)
1 Tbsp mustard seeds
6-7 fresh sprigs of curry leaves

2 Tbsp methi seeds (fenugreek)
2 Tbsp rai Seeds (Mustard)
2 Tbsp badishep (Fennel Seeds)
(dry roast the above 3 ingredients and make a coarse powder)


Method
Take 10 Tbsp of Mustard Oil put it in a vessel once the oil becomes hot add
green chillies, ginger and garlic and fry for 5-10 minutes until the garlic has
browned slightly now add the red chilly powder, turmeric powder stir for few
seconds now add the coarse powder of roasted dry spices, add salt, stir well and
now add the main ingredient the semi ripe dates. Add the lemon juice, stir well
and keep it on fire for 10 minutes on slow fire. Now remove it from fire and keep
it aside. Take in a small frying pan 10 Tbsp of mustard oil, let it smoke, add
1 tbsp of mustard seeds until it crackles, add the curry leaves and now add this
flavoured oil to the dates pickle. Cool it and store it in jar for 3-4 days to enhance
its flavour. Relish the pickle and put in your comments to let me know if you
loved it.

Fish in Green Masala

We did some fish in Green Masala the other day. Used pomfrets for this recipe. The recipe is the same as in Chicken in Green Masala